Mihrac Ural

Mihrac Ural was the leader of the Syrian Resistance, a Marxist-Leninist and Syrian nationalist group that fought for Bashar al-Assad's government during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Mihrac Ural was born in Hatay Province, Turkey to a family of Turkish Alawites. Ural led the Turkish Peoples' Liberation Party Front Acilciler in an insurgency against the Turkish government to add the Alawite state of Hatay to Syria, and he fought for Syrian nationalism. Ural decided to align with President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian Ba'ath Party during the Syrian Civil War, and the Syrian Resistance recruited Turkish Alawites to fight for al-Assad's government against the Syrian Opposition.